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WILLIAM F. ENGLEBRIGHT, OF NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA.

WATER WHEEL...

QPBCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,523, dated October 28, 1888.

Application filed May 4, 18F3. Serial No. 272,820. (No model.)

TaaZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. ENGLE- BRIGHT, of Nevada City, Nevada county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in WVater-Nheels; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to certain improvements in water-wheels of that class which are driven by the momentum of acurrent of water delivered upon the buckets under a high pressure, these wheels being known as hurdygurdy wheels.

It consists in the novel construction of the buckets and their attachment upon the rim of the wheel so as to project alternately upon opposite sides of the rim, the stream of water being delivered into the inner side of one bucket and discharged from the outer side of the bucket by reactionary force, and into the inner side of the next bucket, so as to be discharged from the opposite side of the wheel as it escapes from this bucket.

Referring to the accompanying drawings fora more complete explanation of my invention, Figure 1 is a side view of the wheel-rim with the buckets in place. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the wheel. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of one of the buckets. Fig. 4 is a view of the bottom of the bucket. Fig. 5 is a view of the bucket.

Ais a wheel, the rim and body of which may be constructed in any suitable or usual manner, this wheel being mounted upon the shaft B, which is journaled so that the wheel rotates in a vertical plane. The buckets are made of sheet metal or any other suitable material,having the two sides O Cand a semicircularly curved portion, 1), which unites these sides and forms the bottom of the bucket and receives the water. The side 0 has a sort of extension, as shown at E, and bolt-holes are made through it at F F for the purpose of bolting the bucket to the wheel-rim.

G is a lug formed upon the side (3 of the bucket, and this lug fits into a corresponding depression in the face of the wheel-rim,so that when the bolts pass through the hole F and the lug G the bucket is firmly secured to the wheel-rim, projecting to one side of the central line, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the stream from the nozzle strikes into the inner side of the bottom D and, following its curve, discharges outward upon the outside by reactionary force. The next bucket projects in the same manner to the opposite side of the central line of the wheel-rim, and the water from the discharge nozzle enters this bucket, following the curve of the bottom. and discharging upon the outside and opposite to that from the first bucket, and so on alternately around the wheel. By this means I am enabled to throw the whole volume of discharge from the nozzle in a solid stream into each bucket alternately, and as it is not split or broken by dividing the bucket, the whole power is brought upon the bottom of the bucket and the whole reactionary force of the escaping water also acts upon it.

By reason of the alternate arrangement of the buckets the water is discharged first upon one side of the wheel and then upon the other, so that neither of the buckets interferes with the free discharge of water from the one behind it.

By reason of the bolts and lugs upon the buckets they are secured to the rim strongly enough to resist the strain and pressure of the water and prevent it from forcing them out of place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The water-wheel having the buckets with the curved bottoms arranged to project alter nately upon opposite sides of the wheel-face, whereby the entire stream of water is permitted to enter each bucket and to be discharged therefrom on alternating sides, said buckets having bolt-holes by which they are secured to the rim, and a projecting lug or brace which enters the depression upon the face of the rim, substantially as herein de scribed.

2. A water-wheel having buckets the inner edges of which project beyond the central vertical plane of the wheel, so that each bucket receives the whole of the water discharged by the nozzle, said buckets having also curved bottoms, whereby the entire stream of water enters each bucket upon the inner side and is discharged from the outer side by reactionary force, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM F. ENGLEBRIGHT.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. STRONG, S. H. NOURsE. 

